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Mandatory Behavior – Rights in a Pandemic 0
- March/April 2021
- March 1, 2021
Government accommodation of religious practices has been an enduring pillar of American liberty. In Hobbie v. Unemployment Appeals Commission of Florida (1987), the U.S. Supreme Court (8-1) said that: “This Court has long recognized that the government may (and sometimes must) accommodate religious practices and that it may do so without violating the establishment clause.”
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Mandate Tests Faith 0
- May/June 2012
- May 1, 2012
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010,1 all employer health-care plans must provide—at no cost to the employee—certain preventive services for women.2 The inclusion of contraceptives—including abortion-causing contraceptives—in this mandated coverage has caused a public uproar, with religious groups opposed to contraception and/or abortion decrying the violation of their religious freedom. The ACA is
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Luther, Locke, and Human Dignity 0
- July/August 2017
- July 1, 2017
In the decades after Luther’s formulation of the priesthood of all believers, various theologians and political thinkers explored the implications of that new theory of human equality for both church and state. As the role between church and state became adjusted in various countries, new conceptions and understandings of the individual arose. The Englishman John
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Loving Liberty 0
- January/February 2017
- December 19, 2016
Wandley Jeune never imagined that a commitment to his faith would result in such life-altering consequences. Wandley is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian who observes a weekly Sabbath rest from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. He was a popular barber in a suburb outside Newark, New Jersey, before the shop he worked in told him they
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Love Those Reformers 0
- November/December 2017
- November 1, 2017
Agape love is the central premise of Protestant Christian theology. According to The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, “Luther’s rediscovery of the primacy of agape was the linchpin of the Reformation and the rediscovery of genuine Christian ethics.”1 Many confuse the concept of agape love with the concept of caritas, or charity, but these are two separate
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Love At Work 0
- January/February 2016
- January 1, 2016
The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion,” wrote John Adams, the second president of the United States, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, dated November 4, 1816. The U.S. Supreme Court building has four displays of the Ten Commandments along with other allusions to antiquity: the first is engraved on
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